Issue - meetings

To seek approval for Redditch Borough Council’s Response to Stratford-on-Avon’s Core Strategy.

(Report attached)

The Committee considered a report setting out the response from Officers to the Stratford-on-Avon Draft Core Strategy for endorsement. Members were informed that it had not been possible for the response to be agreed through the normal decision-making process in time to meet the consultation deadline. The response had been discussed at the Planning Advisory Panel, however.

Members were particularly interested in the possibility of development along the A435 corridor and on the land between Studley and Redditch, noting variously the potential benefits to Studley of development of part of that land and the problems with access from the A435 in the Mappleborough Green area. Officers explained that they regarded the area generally as providing pockets of opportunity for development.

RECOMMENDED that

the Officer response (attached at Appendix 1 to the report) to the Stratford-on-Avon Draft Core Strategy, as submitted to Stratford-on-Avon District Council (SoADC) on 29th March 2012 (in line with consultation period dates), be endorsed.